Walter Pooley
Service number
987665
Military unit
Royal Artillery
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
06 Oct 1943 (37 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Son of William Ernest Pooley (d.1940) & Emily Ellen Pooley, of 37 Cloister St. [e.1939 & 45]; husband of Agnes Pooley (née Wilkinson) [Nottingham.m.1931], of 24 Cloister St. [e.1939], 60 Beeston Rd. [e.1945 & 79]. His widow married Eric Arthur Benn [Nottingham.m.1958].
Military history
Nottingham General Cemetery Grave 4796
Died 6th October 1943 at a hospital in Chiswick. His detachment, while stationed in
London, had been sent potato picking. Another soldier situated close to Walter Pooley came across an unexploded device which went off when he picked it up. It killed the other man an Walter died soon afterwards from the resultant injuries.
Interred in Nottingham General Cemetery
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Walter Pooley
Courtesy of Lenton Times.